After 8 years Santiago's thread is still being used but has gone past 100 pages. In the interest of not bogging download times, I am replacing it with this one. Here is the link to the original if anyone wants to look at it. [NSR] What's Pissing you off Today?

At the moment I am not pissed off yet today. But it is early. So someone else start.

Pissed off at drivers. On my 2 mile walk i saw one personn 20 mph over the speed limit passing in a no passing zone through an intersection. Another doing aleft turn through a red light, only glanced to see if there was any traffic. School starts in a week here end it will only get worse! Neighbors came home at noon friday to find punks robbing their house. Sheriff caught them an hour later. 6 stolen cars for these jerks, finally in jail until the do gooders get them out. Drugs and and gangs, all with guns.

I am not pissed off about anything. Life is good. Deer and bunnies frolicking in the sunshine.

So there.

[refraining from making a face and saying "not pissed off at anything? Deer and bunnies frolicking? WHAT THE ---- IS WRONG WITH YOU?"]

Ahem...sorry. Glad stuff is all peachy there. Really.

And, stuff is rather peachy here too. Even had a fun ride to and from the place that cuts my hair. Until some impatient numbness in an Expedition nearly clocked me while making an illegal shortcut to get to the Exxon station at a traffic circle not far from home. Something was definitely wrong with him.

T5bitza69 wrote:

Having to take so many tablets to keep me ticking over. .... I do about 15 a day ..... gotta do 4 just to eat .... n they seem to give me hiccups now 😡

anyway I've started wi a new one .... me voice comes n goes ...... it stresses the fuck outta me n our lass tries to help me but there's nowt she can do so she gets stressed .... then I get mire stressed n get mad at her ... then I hate myself........ it's getting harder n harder to cope ......

She helps me n won't let me help her .... I ask her family to help her ... just take her out n go to a caf n have a brew n cake .... anything to take her mind off me for a hour or so but I might as well ask the wall ..... her mates won't come round either ..... I really don't wanna leave her as she's gonna have to cope with all the aftermath on her own ..... don't know what me son will be like he hides at his girlfriend's flat most nights

Gonna phone me Macmillan nurse tomorrow for a chat n hopefully get her some kind of help

Bitza (Jim).... being a caregiver is a tough road. Caregivers need a lot of support, and sometimes to get away from it all for an hour or so. Unfortunately so many people see caregivers as someone who is contagious, like they're gonna somehow spread cancer or something else through casual contact. Or they think "it's so sad".... what a crock of shit.... of course it's sad, but it's also part of life, and life ain't all rainbows and unicorns, or unicorns farting rainbows.

Also, sometimes it's hard to convince a caregiver that they need to take a break too. My mother had that trouble with my Dad (ALS).... he wasn't too comfortable with other people, but he allowed it because he knew she needed the break. She got out for lunch with her friends now and then, and to get her hair done.... he had to convince her that he'd be fine, and that she needed to see her friends and have a little break from the four walls.

My mom deciding to go into heart failure and check herself into the hospital when we're 7 hours including a ferry ride across Lake Michigan to get home. Sister's 5 hours away...

At 87 it's hard to be too optimistic. Seems like she's out of hospital tomorrow, but I've never heard quite this degree of resignation in her voice. She's a tough one, so expecting her to have miles left, but I don't want to be missing ominous signals either.

Wife's family is 2000 miles away, so can't feel too sorry for myself.....

My mom deciding to go into heart failure and check herself into the hospital when we're 7 hours including a ferry ride across Lake Michigan to get home. Sister's 5 hours away...

At 87 it's hard to be too optimistic. Seems like she's out of hospital tomorrow, but I've never heard quite this degree of resignation in her voice. She's a tough one, so expecting her to have miles left, but I don't want to be missing ominous signals either.

Wife's family is 2000 miles away, so can't feel too sorry for myself.....

Sorry to hear about this. Having met your mom I can hardly imagine hearing resignation in her voice. Fingers crossed..

I was in a rush to go to my doctor's appointment this morning. Shoved my feet in my shoes and left as quickly as possible. Spent most of the day going about my business at work. Felt something in my shoe around lunch time. Pulled my foot out and see I had smashed a roach on the side of my foot.
Guts all over my sock and the inside of my shoe. Just tiny pieces of roach left. Had to wear the roach shoe/sock the rest of the day.

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